Grammy Award-winning baritone Edward Parks, a native of Indiana, Pennsylvania, holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Yale University. A National Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Ed trained at the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and was also awarded third prize in Placido Domingo’s Operalia competition. During the 2024–25 season, Ed makes his Houston Grand Opera debut as Marcello in La bohème, and returns to Detroit Opera to sing Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in a radical new staging by Yuval Sharon.

He began the 2023–24 season as The Creature in the world premiere of Gregg Kallor’s Frankenstein with Arizona Opera. He joined Andrea Bocelli for two North American tour stints, including appearances at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, and bowed as Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan. Ed made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia and has since appeared as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Schaunard in La bohème, and Larkens in La fancuilla del West. Ed has appeared as Valentin in Faust with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Escamillo in Carmen with the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan, Steve Jobs in the world premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs with Santa Fe Opera, Audebert in Silent Night and Marcello in La bohème with Minnesota Opera, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Ópera de Oviedo in Spain, and Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with Opéra de Monte-Carlo on tour in Oman.